{"id":73699,"date":"2026-08-02T21:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=73699"},"modified":"2026-08-02T21:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:25:06","slug":"samantha-morton-on-that-pig-scene-in-the-odyssey-i-wanted-it-to-be-very-sensual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=73699","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Morton on THAT pig scene in The Odyssey: \u2018I wanted it to be very sensual\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/07\/31\/16dd0ba2-14b6-471a-874b-04384904bc20_ec729caa.jpg?itok=-yMRRaFO&amp;v=1785468970\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Samantha Morton did not mean to start humming during that scene in <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The Odyssey<\/em><\/span>, the scene everyone is talking about, when, as the sorceress Circe, she turns Odysseus\u2019 men into pigs, literally moulding them into their true savage selves.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It was not in the script. It just happened. And when Morton was done, she looked over to director Christopher Nolan, waiting for him to say something like, \u201cMaybe try it without the humming, Samantha.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But Nolan did not say anything, so Morton did it again and the music that was swirling inside her head, which she remembers now as a symphony of glass harmoniums and theremin, kept coming out as Circe went about her witchy business, altering her gluttonous guests, who were busy slurping and gulping down her stew.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThese are sounds that can make you go mad, apparently,\u201d Morton says, reclining on her bed at the Hotel Chelsea in New York. \u201cSo to transform the men, the magic came not just from my hands but from my sounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Morton unabashedly believes in magic. How else, she asks, can you explain how a girl who was shuttled between children\u2019s homes and a dozen foster families, only to be living on the streets of Nottingham, England, at the age of 14 with a criminal record, is here talking with the press now, sipping green tea at the Chelsea?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThat\u2019s got to be guardian angels and love \u2013 and not that I suddenly became good at acting and got a job,\u201d says Morton, a veteran who has been at it for 35 years, dazzling audiences and stealing scenes for the likes of Steven Spielberg, Jim Sheridan and now Nolan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3362260\/samantha-morton-pig-scene-odyssey-i-wanted-it-be-very-sensual?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samantha Morton did not mean to start humming during that scene in The Odyssey, the scene everyone is talking about, when, as the sorceress Circe,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[27584,5301,3522,27583,1373,27585,465],"class_list":["post-73699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-morton","tag-odyssey","tag-pig","tag-samantha","tag-scene","tag-sensual","tag-wanted","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}